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Graduates
If you’re a newly-qualified nurse, our bespoke graduate programmes offer you the chance to develop your skills and discover where your interests lie.
Graduate careers at HCA UK
The great thing about joining HCA UK as a graduate is that, from day one, you’ll be in control of your development. Simply choose the specialist areas that interest you most and we’ll do our best to create a programme that’s structured around those areas.
Graduate programmes
Broadly speaking, our opportunities for graduates fall into two three key areas. Whatever path you take, you’ll find it’s all about delivering the highest standards of care.
Nursing
Theatres
Join our dedicated team using the latest equipment at over 30 operating theatres across the country.
Midwives
Gain first-hand experience at the only private midwifery hospital in the UK, providing outstanding antenatal, intranatal and postnatal care.
Working environment
We pride ourselves on investing in the most advanced technology and therapies, so you can be confident you’re working at the forefront of healthcare. It also means you can focus on learning, gaining new experiences and building on everything you’ve learnt in your degree. Put simply, we’ll empower you to be at your best.
Graduate life
As a graduate here, you’ll have all the training and support you need to grow your skills and launch a successful long-term career with us. You’ll be working alongside – and learning from – highly skilled experts as part of a friendly, down-to-earth and collaborative team.
Employment for 3rd year students
If you’re a nursing student at one of our academic affiliates, you can benefit from a supportive and straightforward process to help you move into your first job. This includes:
A guaranteed values-based employment interview with no testing for things like literacy or numeracy (plus coaching and support to help you reapply if you’re unsuccessful)
- A conditional offer of employment within 24 hours
- The opportunity to work as a healthcare support worker after finishing your degree until your NMC registration is confirmed
- A high quality preceptorship programme aligned to the CapitalNurse framework with a named preceptor allocated from day one
- A transfer scheme once you’ve been qualified for 9 months along with rotation programmes.
Locations
We have opportunities for newly qualified nurses at our sites across London and in Manchester.
What you can expect as a graduate here
Graduates have an important role to play in our success, so we’ll make sure you have everything you need to thrive now, and develop with us long into the future.
We’ll make sure you get the hands-on experiences you need to develop quickly, but you’ll always be supported by an expert team so that you feel fully confident in everything you do. You’ll also be allocated your very own mentor – someone you can turn to for day-to-day advice and guidance.
Over the course of your 18-month graduate programme, you’ll complete three six-month placements. Moving between different hospitals and specialisms will give you a fantastic overview of HCA UK – all while refining your skills, developing your confidence and building your career.
Once you’ve successfully completed the programme, you’ll have huge scope to progress. The breadth of our organisation will open up lots of new development opportunities where we offer exceptional on-going training programmes. You can choose to specialise or to experience life in a range of departments.
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At HCA UK we recognise the value of candidates who have served in the Armed Forces. As proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant we welcome applications from both Armed Forces Veterans and Armed Forces Reservists.
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We take our quality of care very seriously as every one of our facilities is monitored, inspected and regulated by CQC. They’ve rated 90% of them either Good or Outstanding.
HCA UK is proud to be part of the Disability confident scheme which supports employers to successfully employ and retain disabled people and those with health conditions.